Fig 4. Minimum-energy assembly energy profiles for NP = 8, MLD = 9 spanning trees (left) and for an NP = 2, MLD = 19 spanning tree (right).
Energy parameters are ϵ1 = −0.5 and μ0 = −4.0 (close to assembly equilibrium where μ0 ≃ − 4.083. Energies are expressed in units of the overall scale E0. The assembly energy profiles of spanning trees with the same NP and MLD are nearly always the same. The pathways for the small number of exceptions are shown in the figure.
